Stojkovic is wrong

Stan Stojkovic’s Aug. 17 op-ed concerning the violence in Charlottesville, Va., spotlighted the vast disconnect between far-left academia and mainstream America.

In the aftermath of the murder of a 32-year-old woman by a racist in Virginia, Americans from the left and the right condemned the repugnant ideology of white supremacy. However, some on the far left conveniently ignore the violence of the extremist left.

One example is Stojkovic, who wrote, “On the other side were counterprotestors who saw their presence as part of a history of those opposed to racism and its modern version of hatemongering: neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”

Granted, while many of the“counter protest ors” peacefully assembled, others did not. As a well-known criminal justice professor, Stojkovic is certainly aware of the antifa (anti-Fascists).

On May 1, 2012, antifa trashed downtown Seattle. Later that year, the Department of Homeland Security’s Joint Terrorism Task Force classified the antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. During May Day protests in 2016, the antifa chucked bags of urine and feces, cans of food, and Molotov cocktails at officers. The antifa also committed arson at the University of California-Berkeley, rioted in Charlotte, N.C., and caused thousands of dollars in property damage in Portland, Ore.

I expected better from Dr. Stojkovic. Criminal justice students at UW-Milwaukee deserve a faculty that will support their efforts in the field and not the antifa goons who attack them.

Steve Spingola Milwaukee Police Dept. (retired) Milwaukee